MONDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR II
Hosea 2:16,17-18,21-22, Matthew 9:18-26
The level of faith some Christians have is very amazing.
There are some situations in life that some Christians find themselves that
they do not bother to call on God again. They lose all hope and trust.
In the gospel reading of today, we see two people in
seemingly hopeless situations. One is an official whose daughter had already
died, and the other a woman who had suffered from a cancerous disease for over
12 years. These people had no reason to come to Jesus again because nothing can
physically be done about the situation. We see it very clearly when the people
in the official's house were laughing at Jesus when he came to raise the child
from the dead. The sick woman also did not even have the courage to ask Jesus,
but she knew that no situation is weird for Jesus; with him all things are
possible.
This is the type of faith the gospel reading calls us to
have today. We may be in a situation that seems unreasonable to call on God, we
may think that God will not do anything about it anymore. With faith in God,
things we can never imagine can happen. Jesus tells us in Matthew 17:20 that
many of us are not able to achieve some things in life because we do not have
faith. We easily give up on God and ourselves. If we truly have faith even as
small as a mustard seed, we can command mountains to move and they will obey
us. Many of us Christians may think that we have faith, it is only when we are
faced with different situations in life that we will discover that our faith is
very shallow. God help us and increase our faith to always trust him no matter
the situation. Amen.
Fr Michael Osatofoh Eninlejie MSP
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